XC PROCEEDINGS. 



boundaries between which lie in the neighbourhood of that part of 

 Labrador nearest Newfoundland. The long-headed races seem to have 

 belonged to an ancient type inferior as a rule to their round-headed 

 brethren. And since paleolithic times they have been gradually pushed 

 to the outlying parts of the earth. Therefore, the occurrence of an 

 apparently intermediate form in Newfoundland is what we might 

 expect from its position near the junction of two such different types." 



The preceding notes are given in the hope that they may lead to 

 systematic investigation of this now extinct race by some one more 

 competent than myself. I am more desirous of this, as I have made a 

 mistake in taking measurements for the vertical index from the bregma 

 to the occipital condyle instead of to the basion. Scarcely within 

 modern times has it been that a tribe has been so completely annihilated 

 that even of its language hardly a remnant remains. The story of the 

 persecution and slaughter of the Beothuks by the white man is a sad 

 one. The history of Newfoundland contains a page marked with 

 blood and darkened with disgrace a page that tells of inhuman slaughter 

 and cruelty that makes the blood of every true man boil the ruthless 

 extermination of a harmless and despairing race." 



A number of interesting remarks upon the subject were made by 

 REV. DR. PATTERSON, of New Glasgow. 



CHARLES TWINING, ESQ., then gave an account of some " New 

 Arrangements in Sailing Gear." The subject was discussed by a number 

 of those present. 



FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, 8th March, 1897. 

 The Second Vice- President, DR. MAO&AY, in the chair. 



It was announced that JAMES FLETCHER, ESQ., LL.D., F. R. S. C.' 

 F. L. S., Entomologist and Botanist, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, 

 had been elected a Corresponding Member. 



MR. PIERS was appointed delegate to represent the Institute at the 

 June meeting of the Royal Society of Canada. 



A paper by DR. GILPIN, on " Some Anuly.-es of Nova Scotia Coals 

 and other Minerals," was read by DR. MACKAT in the absence of the 

 author. (See Transactions, p. 246). 



